If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Remember to live.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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